Inspired by the slogan "HKUnited We Run", Miranda joined the HKU Marathon Team, which she would like to "do something" for the HKU family. The "can-do” spirit further drives Miranda to join the 10Km race and Full Marathon (42.195Km) in 2007 and 2017 respectively.

Dr Ray Zhong is the first awardee of the New Zealand Chinese Youth Scientist Award 2017. He is a lecturer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand where he moved to after obtaining his PhD from the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, HKU in 2013.

What began as a reunion of HKU’s Master of Science in Electronic Commerce and Internet Computing (MEICOM) in 2003 became a life-transforming Marathon journey for one alumna – Pauline Tse. She went from being a sedentary office lady to a recently honoured champion of the World Marathon Majors...

For eight years, Ray has been out in the field exploring all across Hong Kong to capture and record different creatures by camera. So far, around 100 species have been collected and details on most of them were published in a book《香港兩棲爬行類眾生相》.

Teddy Law, founder of the hiking website Oasistrek 綠洲 and writer of the publication《咫尺山林：香港郊野的思緒漫遊》, said Hong Kong is not as “concrete” as we think, and it is no less beautiful than other travel regions and countries popular among Hong Kong people.

This past summer, Max and Edna were amongst the 80 students from local and overseas tertiary education institutions for six-to-eight-week internships in different departments of the Airport Authority (AA).

Joyce took a rather unconventional path when she completed my undergraduate studies. Instead of finding a job with a media agency, she headed to Beijing as a communications intern at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) China office.

International Business and Global Management graduate Yuxin Hou has a career that truly involves global management and not only that, it challenges the norm. He is the Manager of China Business at The Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT), a Hong Kong-based independent think tank and the Project Manager of "The other Hundred" - an international photography competition and photobook project that showcases 100 worldwide photo-stories, each moving beyond stereotypes and introducing readers to the vast majority of people and cultures overlooked by the mainstream media.

Nineteen Riccians, mostly in their 50s, reached the summit top at Mount Hehuan – Wuling – at 3,275 meters (10,745 feet) on bicycles. Mount Hehuan is Taiwan’s tallest mountain accessible by road, and Wuling is generally heralded as the hallmark of cycling, the "Mecca" of cyclists.

Adam Wong, Billy Choi and Argo Yeung began their triathlon adventures less than two years ago. They enjoy every triathlon race, not because they want to beat their competitors but because, as a team, they get to push their limits even further than they can alone.

Old Ghost (pen name) was inspired by a comic to gather a group of like-minded people to write a book about dreams. He truly believe in the idea of pursuing dreams, even after the failures he faced at university.

Gesa Schwantes, a member working on a World Bank-funded conservation project in Guizhou Province, China, has been cited in the prestigious 2016 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation.

Winnie, a Fine Art alumna who has exhibited works in the Asia-Pacific region, Italy and Canada, set up her workshop in a Fo Tan industrial building back in 2006 and has been participating in the annual Open Studios. Ten years later, she is now the organiser of this annual event.

78-year-old Kwong Hung-piu, who has participated in the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon (SCHKM) 10K race is a member of the HKU Marathon Team for the past ten years. He is the most senior member of the Team.

“Poetry is like a riddle. You have to guess what I mean. And a good poem always has a key to unlock it.” Currently working as a medical doctor in a palliative care ward, Chan Lut-ming has “numerous encounters with different people, in which the human ‘touch’ generates ‘feelings’” that drive him to write poems.

Medical startups in Hong Kong are far and few between. However, one such startup is Living Tissues Company Limited (in short Living Tissues) and it is also one of the ten winners of DreamCatchers 100K 2016, which was awarded HK$100,000 after competing against 17 other startups.

Startups are not a recent trend for fresh graduates. Nancy and Gary, now husband and wife who graduated from Faculty of Social Sciences nearly 15 years ago, also walked away from stable career paths after spotted a gap in the market to found Red Publish 紅出版, one of Asia’s leading publishers.

To express their gratitude towards their mentor and teacher Professor YC Cheng 鄭耀宗教授, former HKU Vice-Chancellor (1996-2000) and past Dean of Engineering (1987-1989), a group of alumni initiated a donation to establish the YC Cheng Engineering Scholarship last year. It will support Engineering students to participate in overseas learning.

To celebrate the first chapter of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre under the leadership of its founding director Professor Ying Chan, more than 300 journalists, academics, local business leaders, students and alumni gathered on August 31 in HKU’s historic Loke Yew Hall.

Non-local students have many ways to explore and leave traces of their vibrant university life in Hong Kong. Finance student Zhu Yiqing chose to found the literary magazine Praya 海旁 in 2014 with the aim of recording people's lives and thoughts.

Groups of frequent visitors have been seen meandering around the HKU campus lately. Donning colourful garb, these guests move quietly around the campus, enjoying the tastes of summer. They are BUTTERFLIES!

Gordon and his wife Rosie have became "mentors" of the HKU Mentorship in Australia for more than 10 years... they soon found the mentees to be intelligent and fun-loving young adults, longing to find their niche in society...

Rebecca joined Maxim’s Group as an Executive Trainee after finishing her Bachelor of Science in Food and Nutritional Science. Her encounter with Maxim’s started with a cup of caramel macchiato on her first day at HKU...

Vincci has met many talented designers who dreamed of developing their own products but were not able to because of limited resources and a lack of professional guidance. It became her dream to help them catch their dreams...

Professor Vivian Yam, Chair Professor of the Department of Chemistry of the HKU is an outstanding scientist born and raised in Hong Kong. Professor Yam’s research mainly focused on the development of luminescent materials...

Professor Emily Chan has participated in frontline international medical humanitarian response work for
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) since the mid-1990s. She has left her humanitarian footprints in more than 30 countries around the globe...

Chris and Derek were the honorees of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list. They, together with another three partners, founded 9GAG, a leading social media platform to share jokes with almost 30 million followers on Facebook and 29 million on Instagram...

“I found that most graduates who left the Hall years ago are leading monotonous lives,” said Will Leung, producer and director of ‘Leetle Stage’, a drama group formed by alumni and current residents of Simon K.Y Lee Hall in 2015.

The 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, valued at USD $3 million, is awarded to five teams studying neutrino physics. One of the teams is Daya Bay experiment led by Dr Wang Yifang and Professor Luk Kam-biu.

Most might think that it is only natural for someone to practice law after completing an undergraduate law degree and the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL) program. But for Stephanie Chan, she decided to take the path less taken based on an insight she gained while studying abroad.